On 31/07/18 17:06, Thorsten Schöning wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to get some attention on some older SO-question[1] about > where to place SPI-service files of Java. > > Following the docs, those should be placed in META-INF at the top > level of some JAR and webapps designed to be used with Tomcat provide > such a folder.
Correct. With the caveat that if the web application defines an <absolute-ordering> in web.xml, only those JARs are searched. See https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/WebappServiceLoader.java for details. Mark > But it seems to be ignored during search for > SPI-service files, instead those seem to be assumed in > WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/services. The can easily be seen e.g. using > Process Monitor in Windows. > > As the SO-question lacks some official Tomcat-documentation or such, I > am asking here: What is the correct place for such service files? Can > this be configured somehow? Why is META-INF at the top level ignored? > Is it used at all for anything or only WEB-INF/classes/META-INF for > anything which is normally assumed to be in META-INF itself? > > Thanks! > > [1]: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7692497/tomcat-wont-load-my-meta-inf-services-javax-servlet-servletcontainerinitializ > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > > Thorsten Schöning > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
